hey internet stranger, just wanted to say this comment almost made me teary eyed due to how real it is. is t a quote from something? (i haven’t watched the full video yet)
“Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means, ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.” -Don Draper
I’m here to learn how this man does it. Writing an hour and a half worth of information worth listening to from a simple idea. English class must love him
@@ClarkElieson Would you be able to share some of these outlines? It sounds really interesting, and I want to learn more about it helped you becoming so amazing at your insights and expressions. Thank you again for this amazing video!
I often find myself feeling nostalgic, I searched for video essays about nostalgia and this video perfectly encapsulated what I've always wanted find whenever I searched
@yeeeee78 yeh I'll just kiss yr fart Edit OMG THANSK EVER FOR LIKES 101 Haha funniest comment and f u just said 101 I said it's 200 but shitty Clark on account
I felt the same way but didn’t actually get to searching any up but happened to get recommended this video after playing night in the woods and was glad something was able to break down nostalgia and why it always filled me with anger I could t explain
same, I am in the nostalgia rut :") i keep searching 'old' songs that I used to listen to back in 00's and 2010's. it feels surreal that I'm in my late 20's, those songs were released more than 10 years ago, and some are more than 20 years! it's crazy how I could feel the same as it was the first time I listened to it in my teen soul. idk what I want or looking for but somehow, like OP said, it's the sense of homecoming and longing...
The mourning of your pizza and youtube having removed the audio coinciding made it look like a prolonged moment of silence for the pizza. lol Good video, sorry for your childhood pizza loss.
This entire video made me think of Professor Layton, and how it’s a series coming back after so long. You talking about lost futures reminded me of Lost/Unwound Future, and I feel that your points about nostalgia can perfectly describe Layton in a way I’ve been feeling about other franchises and other things that are gone but not forgotten, and how we can’t help but live in the past and hope for something better to come, wishing for the same thing, despite us going nowhere if we don’t move forward. All and in all, this was really great video. Thank you.
The fact that whenever the Super Bowl rolls around there's a wave of "What was your favorite commercial?" and "That one was so funny!" makes me want to throw up. It's disheartening when a commercial or advertisement itself is supposed to constitute comedy or a meme. Looking at you, Fast Food Monarch...
Nostalgia is best described as an Addiction. We look to the past to give ourselves enjoyment, which leads to our own collapse. But when we look to our future we need to create what's new and not repeat our past. Imagine painting a Tree, We see the drawing we made in a drawer in the past. it's crumpled old & discoloured. But we pin it to the wall anyways. We don't make any new trees, just attempt to copy the same tree, Repeating the past, A loop. A friend then drops by with his drawing... it's an Animal Could be a bird, it could be a Mammal could be anything. We pin that to the wall & which improves it. After which one of two things occurs; the animal is removed it doesn't fit into the Nostalgia of one's self. OR New things are added while old things are removed. One leads eventually to the wall being cleared & the art being forgotten. & the Same with the other, But the forest will inspire.
i didnt even realize this video was nearly 2 hours long,,i was just listening to it while i drew and damn yet another banger. thanks for the hard work yet again
Thank you for making such a precise explanation of what I feel yet cannot even explain to myself. It's like observing my mind as a stranger with objective view I can't imagine how dedicated you are with this series from liminal spaces to nostalgia
This is the best video essay I've seen in a while, and I consume video essays like candy. Thank you. The deep feeling of doom that comes with when I think about the future of our society and the lives of those generations ahead of us has been vilified
08:15AM edit YES OMG THANSK FOR LIKES Haha 11 on likes it's bothering me for not being 12 but 13 so fine haha the 11 it's sillying me it's not listening fix this! 44 has a 4 and it only goes choosing that 4 and copying it by goes Edit THAJKS FOR LIOES
I went into this video to hear an detailed idea, essay, or opinion on the concept of Nostalgia, but what I left with was a tear jerking realization of what it means to exist in this reality. What it means to truly "be" in this world we live in. It reminded me of my mortality in a way that liberated my mind from the confines in which I had imprisoned it. The cloud that had stifled and skewed my view of reality were cleared and because of that, I see what is now in front of me. "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" makes a lot more sense now. Live in today. Live in this moment, not to recapture the good moments of the past, but rather to be in the good moments of right now. For the now is all we have.
It's wild to know that at sixteen I spend my days pining for the past, when at 30 I'll be pining for who I was now. Sometimes it just feels hopeless. Like chasing the empty romanticization of what once was. I hate myself right now, but I just know I'll long for these days. How stupid is that?
I'm nostalgic for a time and place I never got to experience and never will. But also mildly for 2011. Not for the free time, the lack of responsibility, or things like that. But because that was the last year that I was blissfully unaware of the reality I was about to exist in.
i feel the most amount of nostalgia for the time when me and both my parents and me could have a group hug and we would all love each other. Now they are divorced and that feeling can never ever be recreated and it gives me a lump in my throat every time i think about it. I just want one more day with them both together with us all loving each other. Edit: i feel especially bad for my little brother who never got to experience both his biological parents together (he was 1 when they split so he cant remember).
Night In The Woods... Thinking about this game makes me sad, doubly so. I wonder what other masterpieces Alec would have made, if he was still with us.
The thing that confuses me about nostalgia is how can I have such deep feelings for something that wasn't even mine? The feeling I get from seeing advertisements, furniture, styles, and hearing music from the 40s-50s makes me feel a similar feeling to nostalgia... But I was born in 2005.. so how can I feel so strongly about something I never had?
This might sound weird but I think we miss nostalgia because we’re moving further and further away from the past and because the past is being replaced by so much material things around us that are more easily available. We’re consuming so much material that has no real value or quality and it’s overwhelming.
This was just as incredible as I thought it would be. Thank you for all the effort pit into this, I hope you find that it paid off. Really enjoyed the long format and clear script; I think your script writing has only gotten better since the start 👍. Keep doing what you love.
Nostagia is like disappearing for an amount of time long enough that your loved ones almost accept your fate. Your parents still knew one day you would be back home so they kept your room the way you left it all those years ago. You enter your room and go right back to doing what you were doing before you left. Its warm, comfortable and familiar. And having extra parents who are standing outside the front door excited and about 2 lose all hope till you walk up and they realize they were right they knew you were still out there somewhere/sometime. They are the best
I used my nostalgia at the time it was happening to escape my rough home and school situations. I was born in 2000 and grew up all around capitalism, thriving on old game consoles like the gameboy advance, the wii, the old Mac computer, and anything to escape reality. They all helped me escape my mind and just from then to now its changed a TON. So I can't even imagine how y'all who experienced earlier nostalgia must feel. This really hits hard, thank you for making this.
Isn't it sad that you can never go back to the past you long for? But it's sadder to think that sometimes those past were never there to begin with. You often forget that the sense of warmness that you often associate with the past is only in your head.
if only the world could see this in full. I know this impacted me every moment but I still feel this saddness knowing it'll pass me by on my drive. all I can say is thank you and hope these messages sink into my conciousness
I really liked how whenever an idea was talked about in the video, you made sure to mention aspects of real life, it grounded all the talk of philosophy which when mentioned on its own seems to carries no weight. After the first 10 minutes of the video I checked how long it was & actually liked that the video would be so long
This video is amazing!!! Thank you for making the videos that you make. I feel that your channel is very special when it comes to these types of videos.
two games i love, disco elysium and night in the woods. both have made me feel so much, have so much meaning. also, in terms of the haunted bookshop, i would marry the dicemaker.
45:37 stopping for a moment to say despite the existential dread this video has been a nice reminder of NITW and its lessons. It changed me in ways I can't even remember at this point but it's such a powerful game that I've forgotten a bunch of in the years since. Thank you for this video already It also puts into words stuff I never could've, the nostalgia for a past that never existed
The nostalgia I feel is referred to being more than knowing. Just doing stuff, shared living, walking out the door, feeling included, meeting people ect. It's just gone. The shared life. The time where nothing bothered me and if then I just solved. Now it's just nothing there. I see life but from another perspective and it's very different. Like I don't belong here and everyone else can also see that.
Night In The Woods wasn't a game I enjoyed much when I played it. Maybe because I'm not really a nostalgic person and finds the present better than the past. But I really enjoyed the video and I better understand the intention of the game. In music, one of the best weapon is Nostalgia: A familiar leitmotif that takes you back years in memories of the good times. But also give you this sadness those good times belong to the past. A bittersweet emotion. And that's not a bad thing because as the video says, Mae wants it to hurt because that means it meant something. We must know how to mourn the past and look for new things! It's good never to be completely satisfied in life so that we can keep moving forward. Appreciation of life is so underrated 'cause we take it for granted but it is a blessing to exist.
One of the best videos I’ve watched on RU-vid! I have no idea why the algorithm isn’t favouring this at the moment. Hopefully, it pick it up at some point because more people need to watch this masterpiece!!
It appears I’m immune to nostalgia so all these concepts don’t… really make sense to me. I had a nice and happy childhood, but every stage of life has its own ups and downs. I’ve never dreamed of going back to how it was before, because it would be impossible to. Why feel bad for something I can’t obtain
I had a drive to replay a game to fill my past-time once, which people would call a comfort game. The thing is that after replaying that game over and over and over, there began to be sort of distaste that grew. Eventually I dropped in and swore to never to pick it up again, as I knew it had tricked me into playing just for the sake of playing something - and I realized that I want change, if there is none then life is just too boring. Now I go out of my way to encourage myself to try something new even if I am unsure it will satisfy me as that game did. Now it is no longer my favourite game and I am glad that it isn't.
I'm always in love with these really long essay lije videos, they make me think and I enjoy it. also you gove me books that I can read or games I can play
This is the first video I watch of yours, and I was delightfully surprised that you included psychoanalysis theories and concepts since I’m currently studying that 😳😳😳
I feel so depressed about being old and being away from my childhood. 2011s were the best years to live as a child. Everything was pretty much better in that old days including the television programmes. Now days, television programmes are good for nothing I spend a lot of money for cable tv per month but I just get nothing at all. Time has changed lots of things, it's really sad to say.😫😔
a bought a box of cosmic brownies the other day. i was so excited, i'd forgotten what they tasted like but i remembered how much joy they brought me. when i took a bite, i was disappointed. the brownie wasn't good- wasn't right. it didn't invoke nostalgia within me. i was then faced with the question, did they change the recipe, or had i outgrown them?
I spent a large portion of this video asking myself, 'what the hell is clark talking about'. The concept of reality not being real went well over my head. But the summary landed. Relinquishing control and the expectations of control of outcome has been the healthiest boon in my life. And Identity causes some forms of expectation.
I thought I was going crazy!! This kind of thing keeps happening to me in a variety of different video essays from different creators. I'm starting to wonder if it's some weird copyright thing RU-vid is doing now instead of getting rid of entire videos they just silence the audio
Great video, as usual! Loved the filmic feel on this one. But that fact that Nostalgia just goes into capitalism is really funny cause that is one of the core elements of what it is.
This was the day that we didn’t have toxic people on the internet, I mainly try to bring RU-vid back to its original state, but no luck. I moved away from my friends and it was hard because those were the people who started actual friendship. They were Owen and gram. I remember when I used to go to summer school and they had lucky charms and other cereal. The teachers were nice and we had days where we got to ride our bikes. My old bus driver retired but he was really nice and fun. He used to sing on the bus because we didn’t have speakers on the bus. It was really sad to see him go. It was sad to see everyone go because of me leaving. Listening to this makes me remember every good memory of my old elementary school. My old life. And my old happiness. The old things keeping me happy today are offensive jokes and Roblox and junk. I wana go back to the old days. If I had a time machine I would go back to 2010-2017. Back in 2nd grade, when I had to move 1 other person in my grade was also moving. He was sad and I cheered him up. I wish he was there to cheer me up as well. My life is miserable. I learn too much that my brain can’t comprehend half the things being said. I don’t want to have warm ups. I want a cool down. I just want this over with. Minecraft was the beginning of my generation. And my personality. And when Minecraft changed. I also changed. I have grew smarter, yet I still miss when we got to play a lot, I remember in pre school I had a bunch of unicycles and we got to ride them all the time.
I have a nostalgia for my old hometown, or at least I did until I moved back for vacation. The crime rate either went up or the mask finally slipped. When my aunt moved in to my old house, it is now filled with cigarette smoke 24 seven, everything has been all moved around, And various objects now litter every square inch of the house. It's a horder's wet dream.
I'm 23 and I have to say, I missed watching the 1995 Goosebumps on my CRT Tele when I was child. There was something ominous about watching the intro when the man would stand in the field. Billy & Mandy and Chowder has to be one of my two favorite cartoons to this day. I swear, it's like when Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan died, the world began to change. Instead of 2012 being the pinpoint for the end of the world, it seemed to be a reminder of what fright was to come next. cough 2020.
thank you for the stimulating essay! I feel like i need to watch it a couple more times to unravel some of the concepts laid out but i'm looking forward to it. its clear a lot of effort and time went into its creation and i want to honor that with understanding as best I can
First video of yours I’ve seen, probably recommended to me because of its involvement with two of my favorite games, but man you got yourself a subscriber
